collaborating Archives - Agile Testing with Lisa Crispin

Quick risk strategizing

March 20, 2022 / Lisa Crispin / brainstorming, collaborating, Distributed Teams, experiments, quick risk strategizing, remote team members, risk storming, test strategy, Uncategorized / 4 Comments

People often ask me about good ways to devise a test strategy for a new epic or feature. Like many practitioners, I find a risk-based approach works well. I’m a big fan of Beren Van Daele’s risk storming with TestSphere cards. I had the good fortune during 2020 to participate in risk storming sessions facilitated […]

Lots of new blogs, podcasts, videos to share!

September 24, 2021 / Lisa Crispin / Agile Testing Fellowship, collaborating, interview, learning for testers, podcasts, Publications / No Comments

Hi friends! I haven’t posted here for a long while, because I’ve spent my time co-writing blog posts with Janet Gregory on our Agile Testing Fellowship blog. We also write our monthly newsletter with exclusive content, please subscribe if you haven’t already! Most excitingly, Janet and I record monthly 15 minute video chats on our […]

Shifting left and right in the continuous DevOps loop

Shifting left & right in our continuous world

November 1, 2020 / Lisa Crispin / collaborating, continuous delivery, continuous integration, DevOps, shortened feedback loop, software quality, Whole Team Approach / 6 Comments

Pick up any article or watch any talk on a testing-related topic these days, and you’re bound to see the terms “shift left” and “shift right”. They’re almost a cliché. What do they really mean? Modern software development isn’t supposed to be linear anymore, right? There’s not one point where it starts and another point […]

Those checklists

March 30, 2019 / Lisa Crispin / checklists, collaborating, safety / 2 Comments

I had the luxury of working on a terrific team at a financial services startup from the early 00s to the early 10s. Though we jelled as a self-organizing agile team with expert domain knowledge, we occasionally made some really dumb mistakes when deploying to production. The operations VP, Anne, wagged her finger at us […]

All-remote retrospective

April 12, 2018 / Lisa Crispin / agile teams, collaborating, communicating, continual improvement, inclusiveness, remote team members, Retrospectives / No Comments

In February I wrote about the experimental retrospective format for our team’s “cross-pod retro” (so-called, because our large team is divided into smaller pods). Since then, my manager Jo Webb and I have continued to tweak the retro format, based on feedback from surveys done following each retro. Building on feedback Our teammates said they […]

Telling stories together while practicing critical thinking with VTS

January 24, 2018 / Lisa Crispin / agile teams, brainstorming, collaborating, continual improvement, experiments, fun, learning for testers, Uncategorized, visual thinking strategy, Whole Team Approach / 8 Comments

We use our story telling and critical thinking skills constantly as we test and develop software. How often do we practice those skills on something other than features we are going to release to production? Musicians practice their craft. Even coders can practice their craft with katas and code retreats. How can we practice telling […]